Retention of Called teachers within the Lutheran school system is becoming increasingly more difficult with each passing year. With the retirement of baby-boomer teachers and the limited amount of Called workers already in the field or qualified new graduates, the purpose of thi…
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The purpose of this case study explores the impact of an immersion experience to a least developed country on the vocation of lay teacher leaders in American Jesuit High Schools. Nine lay teacher leaders engaged in a four stage process of immersion from November 2009 to August 2…
This qualitative study examines the relationship between professional group belonging and what individuals deem valuable within the creative partnership projects they carry out together in schools. There were three consecutive stages to the research. The first stage was the phen…
This dissertation explores the life and work of a philosophy of education and multicultural education teacher, through the use of narrative inquiry. As a Palestinian/Lebanese Canadian researcher, teacher, mother, activist and writer, I present the journey of freeing myself from …
Sculptor Ephraim Keyser (1850-1937) was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He received his artistic training in Baltimore, Munich, Berlin and Rome. The work of his early career included both marble and bronze statues, busts and allegorical figures. In later years, when he modeled Worl…
This study sought to identify the sources of job satisfaction and dissatisfaction of teachers in urban primary schools in Ethiopia, and to examine how personal and school characteristics mediate teachers' sentiments towards their profession. Participants were classroom teachers …
The researcher in this study investigated how preschool teachers' beliefs about teaching practice, children, and discipline and behavior management related to the preschool teachers' level of education, type of teaching certification, years of teaching experience, and race. The …
The purpose of this study was to examine parent and teacher expectations for early childhood educational programs in Muscat, Oman. Questionnaires were distributed in three private schools; these schools differed from one another in terms of their socioeconomic (SES) levels. Pare…
This thesis reports a study of a group of Iranian young learners, their parents and language teachers on their perceptions of the characteristics of effective language teachers in public schools. The research methodology adopted was a mixed method and therefore, the first part o…
Teacher favouritism at the primary level of education has been a source of concern to all stakeholders in education. Teacher favouritism has the tendency of affecting the teacher-pupil relationship. Based on these reasons, the researcher investigated the influence of teacher fav…
Organizational change, specifically, moving to a Learner-Centered Model of teaching and learning, necessitates that students, teachers, and administrators work as a collaborative team for building student success (Leithwood & Riehl, 2003; Wallace Foundation, 2011). Engaging …
The purpose of this study is to share how African American/Black male K-12 novice educators navigated their own educational journey to become K-12 educators in an urban school district in central Alabama. An urban school district was identified from findings from the Census Bure…
This qualitative self-study explores the relationship between the personal and professional dimensions of a teacher's life that shape identity and praxis. The question driving the research is: How have my life experiences (personal and professional) contributed, or not, to my id…
Early teacher attrition has been a problem for American secondary schools for decades. With raising student enrollment and high fiscal costs to train new teachers, determining value-added approaches to secondary early teacher retention is critical for schools to ensure a quality…
This project uses a historical case study of teacher-support programs at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York City between 1880 and 1962 to better understand how science museums have come to be viewed as spaces for improving the effectiveness of classroom te…
The purpose of this study is to investigate Baha al-Din Muhammad ibn Husayn Amili, aka Sheikh Bahai, a sixteenth century Middle Eastern scholar and educator, and his mathematical work, Quintessence of Calculation (or Khulasat al-Hisab). To accomplish this objective a set of proc…